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Environmental Deceptions|Matthew Alan Cahn

Environmental Deceptions : The Tension Between Liberalism and Environmental Policymaking in the United States

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Explores the tensions between American political culture, which is predicated on self-interest, and environmental regulation, which restricts individual property rights.

Environmental Deceptions brings together normative analysis and empirical data to explain the structural limitations liberal society places on environmental improvement. Whereas liberal society is predicated on individual self-interest, environmental legislation is predicated on communal regulation of individual property rights. Cahn's aim is to expose the tensions between American political culture and environmental regulation in an effort to make environmental policy discourse more effective. By analyzing such areas as air policy, water policy, waste policy, and energy policy, he exposes the subtle tensions that often lead to failure and explains why traditional models of environmental legislation are insufficient to resolve existing environmental dilemmas.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780791422632
  • ISBN-10: 0791422631
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publish Date: January 1995
  • Shipping Weight: 0.94 pounds
  • Page Count: 192

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